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51 .Dd $Mdocdate: December 3 2016 $
52 .Dt SSL_GET_PEER_CERTIFICATE 3
55 .Nm SSL_get_peer_certificate
56 .Nd get the X509 certificate of the peer
60 .Fn SSL_get_peer_certificate "const SSL *ssl"
62 .Fn SSL_get_peer_certificate
63 returns a pointer to the X509 certificate the peer presented.
64 If the peer did not present a certificate,
68 Due to the protocol definition, a TLS/SSL server will always send a
69 certificate, if present.
70 A client will only send a certificate when explicitly requested to do so by the
72 .Xr SSL_CTX_set_verify 3 ) .
73 If an anonymous cipher is used, no certificates are sent.
75 That a certificate is returned does not indicate information about the
78 .Xr SSL_get_verify_result 3
79 to check the verification state.
81 The reference count of the
83 object is incremented by one, so that it will not be destroyed when the session
84 containing the peer certificate is freed.
87 object must be explicitly freed using
90 The following return values can occur:
93 No certificate was presented by the peer or no connection was established.
94 .It Pointer to an X509 certificate
95 The return value points to the certificate presented by the peer.
99 .Xr SSL_CTX_set_verify 3 ,
100 .Xr SSL_get_verify_result 3